Rapa Iti [Import]

Tahitian Choir | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 24, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Triloka Records
• ASIN: B0000057PX
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #278,467 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #24 in Music > World Music > Pacific Islands > Tahiti

Track Listings

1. Oparo E Oparo E

2. Morotiri Nei

3. Himene Tatou

4. Tarema

5. Ei Reka E

6. Ratou Ki Ota

7. Te Vahine Ororagni

8. Te Matamua

9. I Te Fenua

10. Tamaki a Te Mau Ariki

11. Oparo

12. Tevaitau

13. Va Hiti

14. Tau Matamua

15. Te Parau O Eri Rama

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Other worldly and joyful, May 23, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Rapa Iti (Audio CD)

The reviewer above gives you the technical reasons for the other worldly feel to this album. What is missed is the sheer sense of joy of singing that this album conveys. I think it is that quality which makes this album so successful.

I would like to comment on the statement that all of the songs are pre-contact with Europeans. #3-Himeme Tatou is the hymn "Once I was bound by sin's galling fetters..." copywrited in 1917 and renewed in 1945 by the Nazarene Publishing House. I also believe #13 is another hymn but I can't quite place it. Maybe someone else can.

I highly recomment this album to anyone who would like to hear something different and joyful.

4.0 out of 5 stars Angelic islanders, September 17, 2004

By 

Larry R. Richardson (Memphis, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rapa Iti (Audio CD)

Heard about it on NPR with interview of person who did original recording. Great representative of South Pacific choral music with unusual twist (you might think its a bad place in the CD) which is derived from the tribal religion.